Flying car crashes near elementary school in Canada

Still working out the kinks with the $94,000 vehicle.

A flying car crashed near an elementary school in Vernon, British Columbia on Friday, according to a report from CBCNews. The car, which is kept aloft by a parasail and driven forward by a rear propeller, hit a fence and then a tree. Both the pilot and passenger were injured.

The experimental car is named Maverick, and CBC calls it “the fifth-ever flying car” in Canada. The Transportation Safety Board confirmed the crash, calling the vehicle an “I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute.” The company is actually named I-TEC (Indigenous Peoples’ Technology and Education Center) and purports to “provide tools and technologies to God-followers in frontiers areas to meet their needs”

The pilot and passenger had to be pulled out of the tree and taken to a hospital where they were treated and released.

The car costs about $94,000, can travel up to 40 miles per hour in the air, and requires a 100-meter runway to both take off and land. A video posted of the car in December shows a pilot guiding the car through the air to get coffee.

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The problem with flying cars: they're like a fish out of water, both in the air and on the ground. You can have better planes for less money. You can have better cars for less money. You can probably have a better plane AND a better car for less money (obviously, we're assuming previously-owned, but still).